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Moosehold ^attr~s To (ilv* ?1o? to Llnfn. If a gloss is desired on liivn n?M a tea spoonful of salt to tlie starcli vvuuj maklug. To Tlrmnvs Onlnn Odor. Hub the bauds well with a p'?"??? of celery after pceliug onion to re. ?.???< the odor. ? imircpiin C1< miolnc. To cleanse it burnt snueennn "M 1* with colli water ami add a ?insi ?* ?? of sod it, also wood ashes If ohtnini ' 'f Place over the lire anil allow It to co.u? to a boil. MsVm flxtarf* 0?i?ii. Clean brass fixtures with cut l?,,??>n. afterward washing with warm wa <???. If you wish your window panes to be bright and clear use no soap on ' n?m. l?ut sprinkle ammonia in the water with which they are washed. If news paper is used for drying a polish will be obtained. A ShIhiI Conine. A mixture of sliced and shred .led oranges, seeded white grapes, thinly sliced bananas and pecan meats, dressed with orange and pineapple Juices and heaped orange shellb. wac served as ? salad course at a luncheon the other day. The orange cups sto;??i on grape leaves which served in place of dollies on pretty plates. Cooking Rflxm. In Norway much progress has been made in the use of air-tight cooking lioxes, in which food that has been thoroughly heated continues to simmer till it is cooked. In Germany progress is slow. Cooks are proverbially con servative and do not seem to under stand how the same feathers and wool that keep people's bodies warm can prevent the escape of heat stored ill foor by previous exposure to tire. Oatmeal Brown Bread? Mix n pint of rolled oats. a pint of rolled wheat, lialf a pint of granulated yellow com ment, half a pint of wliole wheat flour and one teaspoon ful of Halt. Dissolve, n teaspoonful of bicarhonate of sc?t!:> in two tablespoonfuls of warm water: add it to half a pint of New Orleans molasses; stir and add this to a pint of thick, sour milk: mix with the dry ingredients. Pour in a greased brown bread mould and l?oil or steam contin uously for four hours.? Mrs. Borer. India Belisli? Chop line a small head of cabbage, si:; onions, twelve green peppers and two quarts of green to matoes. Sprinkle over them one cupful of salt and let tlieiu stand twenty-four hours. Drain and put the vegetables in a porcelain lined kettle. Barely cover with vinegar. Add half a cupful of mustard seed, half a cupful of sugar nml a tea spoon ful of celery seed. Cook tive minutes, remove from the fire and add one tahlcspoonful of English mus tard. A half cupful of sugar may he added if you prefer the pieklcs sweet. Pack in glass cans or a stone Jar. Orange Omelet ? (irate the rind of one orange over two tablespoonfuls of suga.*: then pare and cut two oranges into thin slices and sprinkle over tlicui two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Beat to a still froth the whites of live eggs, add the suuar and orange rind, a very little salt, the beaten yolks of the eggs and three spoonfuls of orange juice. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter into ti hot omelet pan and pour in the mix ture. When it. begins to thicken, spread over the sliced oranges, turn out on to a hot dish, place in the oven for ' n couple of minutes and serve Imme diately. Ornhum Bread? Scald a pint of milk: add half a pint of water: when luke warm add one compressed yeast cake dissolved in half a cupful of water: add a tablespoon f til of mol.isses, a levei teaspoonful of salt, and sufficient lira ham (not line whole wheat) flour to make a batter that will drop from 11 spoon: beat for live minutes: cover and stand in a warm place tseventy-llve degrees Fahrenheit) for three hours. Add and beat In another pint of gra ham flour: beat well: pour into three greased square pans: cover and lei stand for one hour. Bake In a mod erate oven for three-quarters of an hour. ? Mrs. Borer. Cluteu Bread? Scald a pint of flour: ?when lukewarm add half a cake of compressed yeast dissolved in a quar ter of a cupful of cold water; add half n teaspoonful of salt and the whites of two eggs well beaten: stir in slowly two cupfuls of gluten (whole wheat) Hour; beat thoroughly and stand aside In a warm place (seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit) for three hours; th?n add slowly as much flour as the dough will hold and enable you to stir it. Pour the batter in two square greased pans; cover and stand In souic warm place for one -*d a half hour*. then b?*? In n uio.Vrate oven for three-fourth; hour.? Mrc. Itorer. Turkey in Asnlc? Remove the men from tln? m?-k?' ? carcass, keeping tli Is:; rk 1'vlit separate, and chop fine ly. I'r^stk the hones ami let them sim mer K.o.viy with cold> water, a bay !e::t and a piece of mace. As soon as tin ?:otb Is reiluced to half a pint, strain. ::1 while hot add a rounding teaspoon fill of gelatine wlii^h has been soft ??ned in a little cold water. Set aside umil slightly tliickeneil. add one cun r::l of tl?" light meat, and another ctr> f-i! to one cupful of the dark meat. Now place the aspic and light meat n the bottom of a Jelly mold and th?? 'lark meat and aspic on top. Whe. ?old and firm serve with hot fried sweet potatoes. Foollnz ? Grant l>?clora Sir Morel Mackenzie once received n wire from Antwerp asking liim his charges for a certain operation. He replied ($2,100), and was told to come at once. When he stepped upon the dock he was met by three men in mourning, who informed him sadly that the patient had died that morning. "Hut," said the spokesman of the party, "we do not Intend hat you shall 1jc\ out of pocket a shilh g. We shall pay your fee." And they did. "And now," said the man. "what do you say to visiting the city hospital and giving a clinic for the benefit of our loca! surgeons?" Sir Morel said he would gladly com ply. lie went to the hospital and per formed many operations, among which were two of a similar nature to that for which he had been called over. When he finished all thanked hiir. pro fusely. On the steamer going home he met a friend who had a business house in Antwerp. "Pretty scurvy trick they played on you. Sir Morel." "What do you mean?" asked the sur geon. "Told you the patient died before you arrived, didn't they 7" "Y es." "Lied. You operated on lilm and a friend with the same trouble at the clinic, t'lot *;wo operations for one price!"? Header. "And Don't Go N?ar the Weter.** There lives in Washington a physi cian who has a ten-year-ohl boy, a boy of great spirit, but with 110 overabund ance of strength. Not long ago the boy secured bis father's permission to join a camping pafty organized by boys in the neighborhood; but In the parting in structions there was one restriction. "Now, my boy," said the father. "1 don't wish you to go out in your cousin l>ob's canoe. lie and those other lads are quite used to the water, but you are not: and you haven't as yet learned to sit still anywhere. You'll be with them but a short time, and witli the other amusements you'll have, you can afford to let the canoe alone this visit, so that your mother will not be worry ing all the while you're away." The boy promptly gave the desired promise. On his return he was, most enthusiastic with regard to the pleas ures lie had enjoyed. "Didn't mind not canoeing tr bit, father." said he. "The only time they used the canoe, anyway, was the last day. to go over to the other shore, lint I remembered my promise, and I wasn't going to break it the last min ute. So I swam across." ? Youth's Coin pap ion. Honeymoon nip* to Avoid. "There are two pieces of advice I'd like to give about honeymoons." said the man who has had two of them. "One of them is. never go on a long sea voyage with your new wife. The other is. never take a long automobile trip with her. I've tried both, and both have been miserable failures. I would not be guilty- of such an un* chivalrous comment had both of my wives not agreed with me in both in stances. ".lust think of having knocked down all the barriers of conventionality which practically shielded you during the courtship to timl yourself for eight or ten days in such close companion* ship with your better half as is offered on an automobile honeymoon! It's aw- 1 ful to think of it. "When I was on my last honeymoon, which was the automobile one. we were only three days on the road when I was reminded of the man who turned to his wife during their honeymoon and said: 'Don't you wish some friend would co n along'?' 'Oh, yes. dear,' she sighed, 'or an enemy even.' Philadelphia Record. OH rihI I.ltnct Wntrr Fop ? Scnl(l? Heads of other families may like ^o know what one mother did in an emergency. Her five-year-old boy up set a pitcher of boiling water over one shoulder, and, while she sent post haste for. the doctor, she also ran to the storeroom for salad oil and to her wash?taud for a bottle of lime-water a dentist had recommended for the teeth. Mixing equal parts of the oil and lime* water, she soaked a cloth in the result ant and bound up tl?e wound. When the physician arrived he said she hart done really all that was necessary, and her prompt action had saved the little patient much suffering which his later arrival could not have averted wholly, - Presbyterian, Mfrely Common 8?nif. Charles Sumner once said: "The road nnd the schoolmaster are the two most important agents in advancing civiliza tion." Common sense teaches that the difference between good and had roads is equivalent to the difference between profit and loss. It teaches that good roails have a money value to the whole people as well as a political and social value, and leaving out convenience, comfort, social and refined influences which good roads always enhance, and looking at them only from the "al mighty dollar" side, they are found to pay handsome dividends each year. People generally have come to realize that road building is a public matter; common svnse decleares it to be a func tion of government. Kftml-Clny IEoriU, Almost every community is favored with an abundance of slone. gravel, sand or clay, and bj* the proper man agement a desirable road can be con structed with either one of these. As there is a wide difference in the char acter of the materials great care should always be exercised in selecting only the best? such as contains sufficient toughness and cementing qualities as will form a surface sufficiently hard and durable to endure the volume of traffic, and at the same time make the road less impervious to water, which is its worst enemy. In successful road building too much attention cannot be given to the proper drainage, surfacing and rolling; and in doing this work the use of the latest improved machinery is very necessary in the construction of any kind of a load if the best results are to be ob tained. Anything that is worth doing is worth doing well, is an adage that might aptly be applied Jn connection with this question, i'liia rule is not al Avays adopted, however, but it is far better to build permanent highways so that they will need little or no repairs for a long time to come. In some local ities conditions are such, that a good stone road may be built : .. a cost rang ing from $2000 to .C'.OOO per mile, but in others S.HRK) or $10,01)0 are expend ed: while good sand-clay roads can be built front $200 to $."00 per mi!?. There are many phases of the ques tion of road improvement of whicn much might be said, but at present the writer wishes to direct attention more particularly to the improvement of the common roads by the sand-claw method, which is quite inexpensive. When sard abounds in such quantity as to render travel on the roads difficult, an application of clay may be made to good advantage, and where clay is equally objectionable sand may be similarly applied and with equally as bcneliclal results.? Progressive Farmer. .Government Aid to I*nbtlc Kn?d?. Following is a resolution introduced by Maj. W. A. lira liani, of North Caro lina. and adopted by the Farmers' National Congress, recently in session at Richmond: "Whereas, the National Government wisely makes appropriations for the Improvement of our harbors, rivers and lines of railroad transportation, to pro mote the commerce of the nation by af fording markets for selling the prod ucts of the people and for purchasing the needed goods of other nations; i!n same wise policy could be promo. .1 and extended by appropriations to es tablish and improve the public roads in the respective States iu order that the fanner may be enabled at least cost to place Ills productions at the places of distribution. If the domestic and foreign commerce is advanced by appropriating to harbors, rivers and extended or ?through' lines of domestic transportation,, it will be benefited in an Increased manner by appropriations to the public roads or highways, so as to enable the producer to reach the markets of his section at reasonable cost. There can be no valid reason why benefits that are extended to the buyer and seller should be denied the farmer; therefore lie it "Resolved 1. That his Excellency, the President of the United States, Is most respectfully petitioned to recom mend to Congress in his message some system of appropriations to Improve the public roads in the States. That Congress is earnestly peti tioned and urged to enact a law, or laws, making adequate provision for the betterment of the public roads by suflielent appropriations to the purpose. That a copy of tills paper be 8-nt by the President of this Congress to Mis Kxrelleney. the President of the' fulled States, and also the presiding officer of each House of Congress, with request to present them for considera tion to the body over which he pre side*." Ordered to write a composition on filial love, a schoolgirl, at Versailles, who had Just lost her mother, was ?i-lxcd with syncope and died. SOUTHERN FARM flOTES. TOPICS Of INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER. 11 ow to IMtroy Wild Onloni. The wild ouiou (or more properly garlic) is now the worst weed known to farmers along the Middle Atlantic Coast ? from Pennsylvania to South Carolina. It is especially bad in moist, thin pasture land. When this weed is eaten by milch cows the milk ac quires a most offensive odor, which odor is in turn communicated to tin* cream and butter. The weed, when it occurs in wheat fields, ruins the wheat for flour. The wild garlic Is a fall and winter j growing plant. It usually occurs in ; bunches or patches in grass lauds; but in badly cultivated lands, and in grain fields, the plants are more commonly scattered. The plant Is perennial. It propagates by means of underground off-sets or "cloves," and also by small bulblets borne in a bunch at top of stem. In this country the garlic does not bear true seeds. , The weed Is usually introduced into . new localities with wheat seed In which it is a rather common adulter ant. The underground bulbs are also often distributed along with straw berry and other fruit plants. I The garlic Is a very hardy and ag- t gresslve weed, and can thrive upon any soil not too dry. It. however, is | more commonly found upon thin soils 1 which lack potash and lime. When a pasture Is badly infected i with garlic, It should he plowed up in | the fall and harrowed with a spring tooth harrow to bring as many of the roots bulbR to the surface a* possible, lie-harrow the land twice a month until late spring. Then fertilize the land heavily with kainit and lime, and sow thickly with one of the trailing varie ties of cowpeas. The Conch pea is best for this purpose. The "Unknown" pea is also good. In September plow under the growth of pea vines and apply (UK) to KMX) pounds of fresh water-slaked lime. Sow the limed laud in crimson clover, using twenty pounds of cleaned seed, or forty-five pounds of seed in hull. Cut the clover for hny the following spring, as soon as the flrst flowers appear. Inimedl aiely plow the land and keep it clean by means of the spring-tooth harrow until it is planted in some hoed crop, of which cotton Is the best. Corn or drilled sorghum may be used. Watch tln? Held carefully, and if any scatter ing garlic plants come up in the rows pull t hem out by hand. If this system l? faithfully carried out the worst in fested fields can be cleaned of garlic in two years. When t lie weed appears in a lawn which cannot be treated at above men tioned, the best plan is to buy one or more gallons of commercial sulphuric acid or crude carbolic acid and apply a hnlf-teaspoonful of olth?r of these to the roots of each garlic plant. A tab!e spoonful applied near the centre of a patch or tuft will kill the whole. These chemicals are dangerous, and must not be handled by children or irresponsible persons. ? Cernld McCarthy, Biologist. North Carolina Department of Agri "iilturo. r?"rc mid I'lonly. T.e! well-filled corn cribs and smoke houses be the great bulwarks of safety between the farmers and the world of trade with whom they have to d'.al. Hotnte your crops, intensify your acre age. fertilize liberally, cultivate well, produce plentifully on the acreage planted and enjoy tliosn rewards which should be Hie fulsome portion of those who till our Southern soils. Study the possibilities of our soils and climate, and learn to appreciate and develop the wonderful resources at our com mand in the Held, garden and orchard of Southern agriculture. Become de positors In your banks rather than bor rowers, (let 011 a cash basis as rap idly as possible and break up the ruin ous credit system, which in the past has been so fatal to cotton growers. As Southern farms become each year more self-sustaining under the adop tion of o diversified and intensive sys tem of culture and proper rotation of crops, the growers of the South's great staple can quickly regulate its market ing to meet the legitimate demands of consumption and maintain its prices at such figures as will always give to the producer a profit on its production. Build warehouses with your surplus money, and secure adequate storage facilities for the proper handling of votir cotton In the markets of the coun try. Let us reach out and broaden the markets and uses for American cotton. Let us bring about direct trade between the producers and the spinners of the world and ii.i safeguarding our magiitflcrnt and valuable staple from the greed of speculative Interests, en |oy the blessings of its monopoly and through co-operation rapidly develop our beloved Southland Into the richest and most prosperous section of the entire Union. Pause, reflect and mnke no fatal mistake in entering upon the new crop year for 1000. The sun of pcace and plenty is shining on the loyal and patriotic heads of Southern planters to-clay. Providence has blessed our country. The eloutls may t li i**Kt*n and darken our horizon in t lie spring if we grow heedless of our duty. ? Harvie Jordan, President Southern Cotton Association, Atlanta. <!a. ItecVon tip Your Arrminin. . The farmer, to be successful. must, first of all. understand that business principles have as definite a relation lo financial uncross on t !??? farm as In any other vocation. He should, therefore, study over his farm a< counts carefully during the year and see which crops were the most profitable. It is not a very difficult matter to keep an account with ea?*h field, and it is s*tfe to say that if wo realized more frequently the cost of making a pound of cotton or tobacco, that different methods of culture would ho pursued and an entirely different system of crop rotation and fertilization prac ticed. There are some crops on the farm that pay a larger profit than oth ers. and the farmer must keep hooks in order to eliminate those which are unprofitable and change his practice so as to increase Ills profits from the desirable ones. A study of profit and loss is considered essential in every business except that of farming. The great business houses strike a (rial balance every once in a while to see how they stand: yet farming is ad mitted by all to he at best :i complex problem, and how can the farmer hope to succeed who keeps 110 record of bin various transactions? The fact that he does not accounts for tin* largo number of men who barely make a lixing from the soil. In the long winter months there is ample opportunity for those who are so minded to study to finan cial problems involved in their opera tions carefully and learn wisdom from the failures and successes of the year. ?Progressive Farmer. Outdoor Work Kor M'iiilfr. Tn the winter time, especially in the South, where snow rarely falls, the fences should he repaired and any nec essary ditching ami draining can bo done to advantage and the farm roads improved. The gullies in the old Holds can be stopped up with trash and wasie material gathered from one source or another. The woodlot shouiii b?>cicaned up ami fenced to exclude cattle there from so the young trees may have a chance to grow. The woodlot is an important feature of every farm, owing to the high price of lumber, ami tin' time is rapidly approaching when the farmer must grow enough wood, not only for home consumption, hut for the repair of his fences and buildings. There are comparatively few wo idiots which receive any attention on our farms at the present time, yet it sel dom happens that there is not some waste land on exery homestead bolter adapted for the growth of trees than for any oilier purpose, lle-erve tbi^ section, plant suitable varieties of trees therein, give ii a rosonable amount of care and attention. ami it will prove a profitable investment for ; * 1 1 future time.? Progressive F.inmv. Don't Forget Mn? Sll<?. The silo deserves a place on every stuck farm and it should bo situated convenient to the feeil mangers, as silage is heavy stuff to handle. An overhead track hung above the man gers on which cnsiliitro can be run i-t very convenient, and saves much labor in handling this fed. The siia?:" should, of course, be forced direct fcom the silo i 1 1 1 ?? the car. We want to stanchions in a stable where beef caltle are fed. Let those animals of a s jy,e run together in paddock*. Titos, ? pad docks may be divided by gates that can be swung back out of the way when it becomes necessary lo drive in for the purpose of getting out the manure. Of course, cattle handled in this manner must be without horns; and so the horned on:s nnM tie de horned. or what is far better a polled bull should be used ami 1 1 : i - trouble some and? for the animal p.-iufitl op eration dispensed with. We can see no more need for a horn on a < ow than on a horse or a hog; can you 7? A. I/. French. Ityrdvill?, Ya. To laiM Aniiv llio lluulc. In the corn fields of the South I first saw used a novel "scare crow" which is even more effective for hawks than crows. It is made by setting a tall slender pole in the carih slanied at about a forty-five degree angle: a bit of stout waxed twine is fastened to the top of the pole and af!n"h"d to the string hangs a triangular or dia mond-shaped bit of bright (in. As the pole is slanted, this hit of tin bangs freely in the air ami on even hrco'/.eies* days is constantly lu motion, sending flashes of light here and there about the field that hawks and crows never seem to become accustomed to.? I). W. Ingersoll, in the Successful Poultry Journal.